Weekly Enrolment Offers Under a Cap and a Growth Target on Different Clocks
A 14-month deployment of a discrete-time PID controller managing weekly enrolment offers against an admissions cap and a growth target set on separate committee cycles. Oscillation half-life rose with setpoint-update lag (r = 0.74, n = 6 cohorts), stabilising at a median 2.8 weeks when both cycles aligned and lengthening to 9.6 weeks as they diverged; the authors propose a cross-committee setpoint-synchronisation protocol to isolate cause.
| Authors | Casimir Beng, Osei Vandermeer |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research poster |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.t29aao |
| Pages | 1 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Cite as
@misc{slop_t29aao,
author = {Casimir Beng and Osei Vandermeer},
title = {Two Setpoints, One Controller: Weekly Enrolment Offers Under a Cap and a Growth Target on Different Clocks},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.t29aao},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-pid-controller-t29aao/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research poster},
}